Assessment

The first step in birthing a new church is to identify a leader with a vision. These leaders come from differing backgrounds, with varying gift mixes. Mission Igniter works with potential planters to assess their character, competency and capability with both the tribe and target community.

God has designed each leader differently. A multi-layered approach to assessments will help you better understand yourself and how God has designed you to multiply.

Step 1 - Complete the Initial Screening Assessment and review it with our team

We utilize Church Planter Profiles to provide a basic foundational insight into your gifting, personality and experience. The Initial Screening Assessment is an 85 question tool that will provide insight into your (1) Experience, (2) Entrepreneurial Leadership, (3) Ministry Experience, and (4) Relational Evangelism. Getting started is free to you.

 To take your Initial Screening Assessment, click on the button below and follow these three steps when registering: 

1.   When asked “Are you already working with an agency?” Answer, “Yes – I was asked to complete a profile by a church planting agency”
2.    Choose "Mission Igniter" as your agency.
3.    Complete the account registration and connect with us to discuss your results.

Step 2 - Complete the Online Intake Form 

Complete the Mission Igniter intake form to provide our team a little background about yourself and your heart to see the church multiply.

Step 3 - Complete Required Background Checks

If you will be planting with Mission Igniter or a partner conference, please complete a release for us to conduct a background check.

Step 4 - Complete the Truewiring assessment suite

After connecting with a Mission Igniter coach to review your Initial Screening Assessment, complete the TrueWiring Assessment Suite:

• DISCw — This instrument addresses your behavioral needs as identified in four scales: Dominant, Influential, Steady, and Conscientious. These four factors dramatically influence the way you will act in the context of a team to accomplish a task.

• Emotional Intelligence (EQw) — This instrument is an assessment of your developed skills in two domains: your own emotions and those of others. This instrument identifies your ability to appropriately identify, understand, and articulate your emotions while developing the same skills with others

• Conflict Profile (CPw) — This instrument helps you gain insight into your learned skills in dealing with conflict by identifying your preferred and supporting styles for addressing conflict.

• Motivators (Mw) — This instrument identifies internal factors that drive you. These motivators influence your personal, professional, social, and every other part of your life because they influence what you view as important, which impacts the way you lead and view any situation.

• Spiritual Gifts – This instrument is an assessment of your unique abilities given to you by the Holy Spirit at conversion for expanding the Kingdom.

Complete the 16pf assessment
(at request of mission igniter team member)

• The 16PF (Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire) is a self-reported personality assessment developed over several decades of empirical research. The 16PF instrument provides coaches and clinicians with a normal-range measurement of anxiety, adjustment, emotional stability, and behavioral problems. The results of this tool can be used to identify effective strategies for establishing a working alliance, to develop an action plan, and select effective therapeutic interventions or modes of treatment. It can also be used to assist in career and occupational selection. The 16PF can also be used by trained counselors as an instrument to assess psychiatric disorders. Therefore many organizations require the 16PF in their selection process.

Complete a full day Ridley (PAS) Assessment Interview

Required only for Church Plants requesting $50,000+ in grant funding

Dr. Charles Ridley developed the Profile Assessment System to identify 13 prominent performance dimensions that demonstrate a high capacity for leading church multiplication. Through an extended interview, an assessor (or assessment team) will explore how a candidate demonstrates key characteristics in their past. Candidates are asked to share from their past experience to provide specific examples for each area explored. The assessment team will provide a comprehensive report detailing a candidate's strengths and potential weaknesses which will provide direction in developing a potential multiplication plan.

Prepare your Plan

As you discern your plans to plant a church, a Mission Igniter coach will walk with you as your develop your plan/proposal. Typically this plan is the basic piece needed to pitch for a matching grant from your denominational conference/district.